TrekMovie Viral Video Awards – Best In Star Trek Viral Videos

Unlike last year with its first win, the Oscars don’t have much to do with Star Trek this year. So tonight TrekMovie has decided to hold our own award show. Below we celebrate all the best in Star Trek viral videos for the last year. There is no red carpet, no nominees, just lots of winners. Check them out below.

And the winners are…

BEST ACTING IN A STAR TREK VIRAL VIDEO:
Ashleigh Harrington in "Star Trek" by Girls on Film

The Girls on Film team re-imagine scenes from films with women swapped out for the male actors. Ashleigh Harrington impressed with a though-provoking portrayal of a female James T Kirk in a scene from Star Trek 2009.

Early in 2010 it seemed that the "Trolololo Guy" (aka Russian Singer Eduard Khil) was the biggest thing to hit the net since Chocolate Rain. And intrepid Trekkie BenJeremy beamed him into the 23rd century.

Seth MacFarlane is a huge Trekkie and can’t help but put Trek gags into all his work, and by getting Michael Dorn and Patrick Stewart to inject some Next Generation into the Star Wars spoof "Its A Trap" he wins this category.

BEST STAR TREK REFERENCE IN COMMERCIAL:
"Beam In" – McDonalds Ireland

McDonald’s Ireland had a future-theme for their EuroSaver campaign, and they showed some real Star Trek love (and good special effects) with "Beam In".

BEST VIDEO REVIEW
"Star Trek 2009" by Red Letter Media

Starting with a funny scathing review of Star Trek Generations in 2008 Red Letter Media has become an internet sensation, especially once they took on the Star Wars prequels. Last year the curmudgeonly "Harry S. Plinkett" (aka Mike Stoklasa) took on Star Trek 2009 with a 67-minute review, that is insightful entertaining nit-picking fun. Here is part one, part two is at www.redlettermedia.com.

While Star Trek 2009 stars Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana and others have appeared in viral videos over the last year, the most impressive entry came from Star Trek Voyager stars Robert Picardo and Tim Russ with the sci-fi spy spoof "Chad and the Alien Toupee"

TREKKIES CHOICE AWARD:
"Star trek: How It Should Have Ended" – How Should Have Ended

The 1,579,065 views make this hilarious take on how Star Trek 2009 should have ended a big hit with Trekkies and just about everyone else.

PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD:
"Star Trek: Tik Tok (Ke$ha) – Miss Sheenie

Although it may not be the favorite of the Trekkies, with over 1.5 million views since April 2010, this mashup of Star Trek clips with the Ke$ha pop song "Tik Tok" is the biggest Trek-theme music video and one of the biggest viral videos of the the year.

The PushIt film guys are leaders in the underground filmmaking world of no-budget "Sweded" films, and with their take on Star Trek 2009 they nailed it.

BEST STAR TREK MASHUP:
"For Bill and George" by Paul Sibbald

Our old friend Paul "Spockboy" Sibbald continues to be the king of re-stitching and mashing up clips from Star Trek with original material. His hilarious "For Bill and George" brings Star Trek villains together to comment on the Shatner/Takei feud.

BEST STAR TREK VIRAL SERIES:
"Keeping up with the Cardassians" – PushIt Films

The 11-episode comedy series "Keeping up with the Cardassians", created by Janette Timm, D.B. Levin and an impressive team tells the story of a Trekkie family struggling with adversity and Trek feuds as they travel to the Star Trek con in Las Vegas. Episode 1 is below, visit www.keepingupwiththecardassians.net for more info and more episodes.

BEST STAR OVERALL TREK VIRAL VIDEO:
"Night of the Living Trekkies Book Trailer" – by Irreference

Book publisher Irreference hit it out of the park with this trailer for their Trekkies-turned-zombies book "Night of the Living Trekkies".

Congratulations to all the winners. And to all those creative people who keep Trek alive on the web with their creative videos, keep up the great work.

That’s it for this year’s TrekMovie Star Trek Viral Video Awards, see you next year.

I totally agree with your choice of Best Overall Star Trek Viral Video, “The Night of the Living Trekkies Book Trailer.” The jokes work and shows we, Trekkers have a sense of humor. And the Red Shirt at the end gets some of the best lines.

February 27, 2011 10:04 pm

Jim Nightshade

mmmm its meekakitty not meekagirl—-i should know thanx to trekmovie.com i went n bought her song on itunes–purrrrr

February 27, 2011 11:30 pm

Bill Peters

That person from the Star Trek Girl video should get a small part all beat not a read shirt for the next Star Trek Flim as a Camo!

February 27, 2011 11:50 pm

Anthony Thompson

The Star Trek vs. Star Wars (missing here) was also good. As was the Kirk – Spock “Brokeback Mountain” vid (also missing here). Have no problem with the Tic Tok video, but it wasn’t well edited.

February 28, 2011 1:50 am

Hat Rick

1. “Keeping Up with the Cardassians” — excellent title. Now, to make it a reality show.

2. I still don’t understand why Dr. Crusher was left out of that Family Guy parody. It’s like, there’s even an empty space for her on the bridge.

That one of the girl dancing to the Star Trek thing was adorable! I only wish there were more kids like her out there. (by the way, did anybody else think the fact that the episode they were watching was “Amok Time” was funny as hell?)

And Captain Kirk as Ke$ha…what can I say?

February 28, 2011 2:08 pm

Jeffrey S. Nelson

Matt Berry from the IT Crowd is so talented. He was Sanchez on Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place and also played himself along with Rich Fulcher in Snuffbox, both too short-lived British TV series. Matt’s solo music albums are wonderful.

February 28, 2011 3:49 pm

Enterprisingguy

Spockboy gets my vote every time!

Not only are his mashups funny, but the video quality and editing are beautiful! I hope we see more from him this year.

February 28, 2011 4:13 pm

HARRISON!!!

My favourite is the Girls on Film redo of the Hella Bar Talk scene, but I still wish they’d subtly re-jigged the dialogue so that Kirk & Pike referred to each-other as females; that incongruity is the only thing that jars me out of an otherwise excellent performance.

It wouldn’t’ve been that hard, mostly just swapping genders, and even the line “if you’re half the man your father was” could’ve been changed to “if you’re half the Kirk your father was”…

The Trololololo Guy I never saw before but the vibes are very similar to say Andy Kaufman singing….Kaufman woulda liked this singing guy heheheh

February 28, 2011 10:05 pm

Jim Nightshade

Yah the Zombie Trek Trailer was so good I passed it on to a friend who works at Boeing lots of trek fans there….he said they all wanted to know when the Movie or video was coming out..they were not interested in the graphic novel but they wanted to watch that movie hahaah

Tell your friend at Boeing its a novel, not a graphic novel. Would love it to be a movie. Maybe soon…

Kevin

March 1, 2011 1:00 pm

Jim Nightshade

yep Kevin now that is a sign of a really good trailer when the trailer is more interesting than thebook or stories its promoting haha.

March 2, 2011 7:29 am

Thorbury

In other words, “It was a bad year for Star Trek videos”. Brevity, people – look into it.

March 2, 2011 10:21 am

JordyLaGorge

The Girls On Film Star Trek scene was pretty awesome. I just looked at there site and they just did an awesome scene from No Country For Old Men!! These girls are really doing good work… and the directors images are spot on.
check out the latest episode here http://www.thegirlsonfilm.com